“Be sure you are right. Then go-ahead.” This was the motto of David Crockett. Crockett was born in Greene County in 1786 and as a young man he, at different times, lived in Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin, Lawrence and Gibson counties (today there is a monument or park to him just about everywhere he lived). He excelled at hunting and at being a soldier, fighting in several battles against Native Americans. Then he shifted to politics, getting elected to the legislature and later to Congress. But Crockett was a critic of President Andrew Jackson, which hurt his political ambitions. And by this time people had written articles and books about his life as a frontiersman, making him a national hero.